Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06


WINGED that the second great mistake o
their political cause in this country wa
their not voting en- masse for j. G. Blaine
despite Parson Burchard's Rum, Roman
ism and Rebellion" They stand ready t.
correct that error at our next presidential
election, and J. J. Ingalls, is the man
There can come no enmity between
the eastern and western section
the gain of so many congressman to tn
west and the loss Of so many to the east b.
recent census shows which way thu
crowd is rushing, and proves conclusively
that the west can take the east under he
wing and see that no harm comes to it
Have we forgotten do you think that there
never was time that the east was unWll
ling to sell us yankee notions or dry good!
and take it out in wheat, or loan money or
our broad farms at ten per cent. Can any
man deserving the name of man forget the
scenes of his boyhood? Very many OF ouI
wealthy farmers passed their early man
hood among the sterile sleeps and rocky
hillsides of bleak New England, where
they planted corn with a mallet and cold
chisel, and where it grew to the height of
two and even three feet, with an ear on al
most every stock There was time in
the early history of the west when we
looked to the east for our literature and
lucre, our manufactures and arts, our
pedagogues and frills, but their grip is
gone, and if the New England states and
foreign powers regard the west as howl
ing wilderness, where the Indian and
bison roam at large, it is their misfortune;
we feel sorry for them. To be sure the
Police Gazette and other illustrated papers
in the east rejecting the cultured hummer
and police doings of the country still hold
their own. But their time will
come. Eastern liver pills which
drained SO much money from the West
and built so many Eastern palaces, are fast
losing their grip upon our people; their in
fuence is weakening, and padfactories are
springing up, and Christian scientists or
mental healers are restoring manhood,
raising manhood, raising the dead, curing
cancerous affections, and even chronic cases
of liver complaint, right here in Wichita.
Western firms are turning out good work
in every department. The manufacture
and publication of books which no one
supposed could be done anywhere else but
the East is being carried on with neatness
and dispatch right here in Wichita. Car
factories keep coming this way to make use
of our western wood and iron Our flour
ing mills, which already keep this vast
country in -four enough for paste, are in
creasing in capacity and number.
The prairies are dotted with coal shafts,
the woods are full of saw mills; gas fac
tory in every city; coal, oil and unlimited
gas waiting the spectators hand under
meath all our fertile prairies. Why should
we backward about talking or aciing7 Let
us put q western stateSman-John j. In
gals, in the presidential chair next time,
ard the East will recognize US on the
street
This nonsensical talk about the common
people of England being our friends is in
sane They are British subjects and are
as ready to step over here today and grind
us beneath their johnny Bull heels as they
were during the days of the Boston Tea
Party" or when they sent Mason and Sill
dell over to run our blockade. Please,
Brother Doolittle, don't grieye your tender
heart over the event of war with the COM
mon people of England, or the probabili-
ties of disruption between East and West.
AUNT JENNY